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Thousands of years after the jewelry's destroyed, the sword reforged, the dragon ridden, and the indecipherable prophecy translated
into a recipe for sugared biscuits, the dwarves turned to that final
frontier: space. And along came the elves, orcs, gnomes, trolls, ogres,
and those vermin-like upstarts, humans.

Dwarves in Space is Tolkien merged with Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in a horrific transporter accident.

The Elation-Cru
is not the flashiest ship, nor the newest, or even has all of its bolts
attached; but she can fly. Well, sort of wade through space, and that's
when all the parts are working. She supports a sugar addicted dwarven
pilot, an elven engineer, an orcish doctor, a silent djinn, and the lone
human trying to hold the entire thing together with duct tape. Variel,
the captain, has been hiding from a secret for the past five years and
time's finally run out.

When she goes against her common
sense and fights to save her onboard assassin/renter from a job gone
sour, she finds herself before an ex-colleague that knew her in her
previous life as the Knight of the realm. The entire ship is sent on a
mad dash across the universe -- from a decaying space station, home to
the wackiest species the galaxy has to offer, down to the Orc homeworld,
which wouldn't be so bad if Variel hadn't spent most of her previous
life fighting in the war against them. Chances of survival are nil and
slipping fast.

S. E. Zbasnik has a degree in genetics, which means there may or may not be a horde of monkeoctopi doing her
bidding to take over the world. Bringing that scientific approach to the
fantasy world is her game, trying to put some common sense into magic
and magic into common sense.

She currently lives with her husband and
beloved dog, who dress up like Sherlock Holmes and solve mysteries in
their spare time. She spends nearly of all her time in Nebraska but
that's because it is impossible to leave without finding the lamppost.
She lives in a house that has at least four walls and there are some
other souls wandering forlornly calling to their lost lives within.

She loves and hates writing as she both loves and hates herself.

Editorial Reviews

Mandary Reads:"There wasn't a singlecharacter on the Elation Cru that I couldn't imagine myself hanging outwith...[T]he author somehow manages to make things like pulling wires or hitting buttons on a console seem intense. It's great.

You should absolutely pre-order this book. You should read it, hopefully enjoy it, and do a little dance that this is a sci-fi book that doesn't rely on technobabble or each member of an alien species all being thesame in order to make its point."

Margy's Musings

"Dwarves in Space" is brilliant. The characters are well rounded,interesting, and individualistic enough that it is easy to developfavourites. It's on to a rollercoaster ride of spills, thrills, chills and the occasional outbreak of lunacy."